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RINAHAN'S LL WHISKY v. COG N AC This BRANDY. celebrated Old IRISH WHISKY rivals the finest BRANDY, It Li Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. th Sold in Bottles, 38. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by ate Agents in the principal towns in England ; or wholesale 8 , GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Obsaban erve the Red Seal, " Pink Label, and Cork branded A bl's LL Whisky. VIE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS n ASSOCIATION (Limited). Incorporated (with Limited Liability) under "The Corn panics Act, 1862.' £50,000, in 5,000 shares of £lO each ; Lion application and £1 on allotment. DIRECTORS. / 1 . 1, r t Bell, Esq., Belmont. York-strect, Portman-square. arles Kingsford, Esq., House, Lewisham. Itarles Morris, Esq., 45 q , South-street, Grosvenor-squ ire. "brie 8 f; Reynolds, Es., Allhallows Chambers, Lombard "lel W. 11. C. Waesley, in, Wilton-street, Belgrave luare. 041 1 Geo. Witt, Esq., 3, King's Bench-walk, Temple. BANKERS, Messrs. Dimsdale, Drewett, Fowler, and Barnard. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Bevan and Whiting. SECRETARY (PRO TEM.) It. 11. Patterson, Esq. Offices (temporary)-6, 01(1 Jewry, E.C. ti. The object of this Association is to furnish the press and %I!' Public of England, the Continent of Europe, and the i',etern world with a fuller and more regular supply of `elegraphic intelligence than the present system provfoes. A pplications for shares to be made at the binkers or to the rcretary, or at the temporary offices of the Company, 6, Old Wry, London, 1,;.C. THE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS ASSOCIATION. ~ N O TICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the SUBSCRIP ,,',ON LIST will be CLOSED on the 15th inst., at Twelve "clock, for London, and on the following day for the Country 4141 abroad. R. H. PATTERSON, Secretary. ) Ii 1S DAY at 3 and 8 o'clock p.m., and every Day and I 'veiling this week, at ST. JAMES'S HALL, Piccadilly. COMMIOI)ORE NU'f'r & MINNIE WARREN, Best Man and Bridesmaid to GENERAL TOM THUMB 11 1 1 WIFE, will give TV% 0 LEVEES daily, and appear c lange of Song, , s, Dances, Ducts, &c. &3. Change of Pro btainnie at each Levee. —Admission 28 • back seats and gallery, is. ; reserved 'nail s ' 2 8, s. each. Children under 10 years of age half-price in anti 38. places. rip HE OXFOR D, 6, OXFORD STREET, W. The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). ORM E 14.1 AUX ENFERS (Offenbach's brilliant Opera is achieving an unprecedented success. Vide, the tiTigßceotia Hymn to Bacchus " and e spirited "Hill ho " Chorus, by Eurydice Dana, , Dna,Cupid, Diana,orus ; the side-splitting " Couplets," by Minerva, Venus, Cupid, I'luto, and Chorus ; a: d final MinuPt Galop. Principal characters by Misses Russell, Fitz elrY, Barrie, Tyrrell, and Walmslcy ; Messrs. Greene and itscelles. trend Revival of NORMA (Norma, Miss Russell) ; Adel- Madame Maria); and Selections from MARTHA and TRAVIATA; together with Locke's celebrated Music v aIACBETH. Musical Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. TUE DESCENT OF MERCURY, by Mr. Jas. Talliott. LE MONSTRE CIIARME, by M. SILVESTRE. 'the D'AUBANS in their famous Character Sketches t('emedy, by Mr. WILLIAM RANDALL, Mr. GASTON he'MAY LITTLE 808, and all the procurable Talent of uay. Instrumental Solos, &c., &e. b °Xes, 10 AdmissArea, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, le. ; private 8. 6d. CANTERBURY HALL. The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). sr_ERFUME and BOUQUET, the NEW OPTICAL br ought into in which the whole resources of the establishment are 'Ought into requisition, written by Mr. W. F. Vandervell. The usual Operatic Selections, the Anthropophaglnian, &c. ,Comedy by Mr. W. Randal', T. Stacey, W. Milton, and the gcndrous Indian Rope Trick by Messrs. W. Hilton and Comic Illustrations of Negro character by LITTLE 808. Admission—Area, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, Is. OYAL CAMBRIDGE MUSIC HALL, Commercial-street, Shoreditch. (Close to the Great Eastern Terminus. Sole Proprietor, Mr. G. W. NUGENT. SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS UP TO CHRISTMAS. operatic Selections, &o. 'Prima Donna, Miss ELLISON. ahe Comic strength of the Company includes ANNIE t ,., AMs, NELLY POWER, J. G. FORDE, WEST, GEO. p';'YBOURNE, Mr. HERB L ERT, AEXANDER and n. " I Y; LES FRERES CAVALLINI, the great Italian tb o wns and Gymnasts, from the Cirque Napoleon, Paris, h eir first appearance in England. P ermanent prices —Area, 4d. ; balcony, 6d. ; stalls, Is. Manager and Conductor, Mr. C. GRE VILLE. ....... 111ADANIE TUSSAUD'S EX 111 BITION, e.tabushed 20 yea rsa he Bazaar, Baker-street. NEW ADDITION. --A Pa It length PORTRAIT MODEL of HULLER, taken from life, and corrected from the Cast strand,y Doctor Donovan, of the Phreuologic4l School, ill, is now added to the Chamber of Physiognomy. Open from 11 a.m. tin 10 p m. Admittance, One Shilling; extra rooms, Sixpence. .......__ ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Piccadilly. 31 th e Week ~e tahrate,4 - rrill " Weck fluari s ' W a lt z , Wapping Old Stairs, Swly in our el , Y. Faust, and other novelties. Lug( Curti, Chef d'Or i4fitra, has arranged for this occasion selections from Tro " Ore, Martha, Huguenots, with a series of new dance music. Admission, One Shilling. Manager—M. GRENET. TEET ESKELL'S PATENT,—The Eskelj right to this Patent was secured to Mr. of Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square, b by hor Ma )ll"Y's Royal Seal (July 17, ISO), and can only e procured at k s ,residence, where specimens maybe seen, and every infor to4,len can be obtained. Under this Patent, Artificial Teeth, h4ast a lifetime, are made, and fitted in a few hours w ithout hor extractions. They support loose teeth, and protect Plder gums ands resemblance to nature is perfect and un teetable, they are guaranteed for mastication and vVculation. Treatise on the subject sent for seven stamps. 4 sultations free. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. Eskell, dental-surgeon, has succeeded in producing ar tificial teeth, and so constructiv them that they last their a ~Aose a lifetime. . . . The process has been patented, i 'lB6 o romises to be most valuable."—Court Journal, August : 4 ,-A- surprising novelty in te adatation of artificial teeh gum by a patented pri h nciple, p which secures the mos t t 4 ,., 4 teet aid, combined with the greatest ease and agreeable v Peatance."--Morning Advertiser, August 9, 1860. agreeable teeth stopped, &o. Terms strictly moderate. 8, Grosvenor -street, Bond-street. CITY SHOW-ROOMS FOR GLASS AND CHINA, 147, HOUNDS DITCH. bEFRIES and SONS' TABLE GLASS, Cut and Engraved, of the cho!cest designs. I)EFRIES and SONS' DINNER, DESSERT, and Tea Ware, of the newest patterns. bEFRIES and SONS' LUSTRES, TAZZAS, and Flower Vases for the present season. 11EFRIES and SONS' CHANDELIERS, for the Dining-room, in Bronze, Ormolu, and Silver. bEFRIES and SONS' CHANDELIERS, in Crystal, for the Drawing-room, for Gas or Candles. --- REFRIES and SONS' CHANDELIERS, 4,.. in Crystal, in the Venetian and Grecian designs, for I3EFRIES and SONS' SPECIAL DESIGNS in Lamps for India. tIEFRIES end SONS' WALL LIGHT Chandeliers, in Crystal, for India (Registered). I) R P ME S and SONS promptly execute CLUB, Mess, and General Furnishing Orders of China, Glass, b''FRIES and SONS supply MERCHANTS with Pattern Books and Special Designs. bEFRIES And SONS have just added Five • New Show-Rooms to their extensive Manufactory. he y have now on show the largest assortment in the world t e above goods of their own manufacture. MANUFACTORY AND SHOW-ROOMS, 147, Iloundeditch. 14 1 - 1 SINESSE S.—Mr. ANDREW HIND'S NOVEMBER LIST, Co Naining 500 Businesses, Premises, Partnerships, &c., Gratis, ------- ID I Letters, enclose stamp.—Particulars entered free. 4, -- PAS— CORNER OP LITTLE CARTER-LANE, T. PAUL'S. TEIGNMouT Devon.—Mr. ANDREW !latt iv HINT) has received instructions to SELL a Gentle -1104„a jtESIDENCE, with grounds of about 3 acres. The 1 '5 0 ,,' Is pleasantly situate; contains dining, two drawing kee-‘B. nine Led-rooms, three dressing-room• 4, library, house ist,Per's room and offices, conservatory, garden, three-stall th e two coach-houses, &c. It stands on high ground, and Irt,iooWs from it are goo I. Distance from the sea about a kitv:' Price £2,00.- Particul;rs and cards to view at the vaii i ,; 3 'cntral Estate Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane, St. 13(-)YAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, ",„ in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rai/- . -terminus, King's-cross. VieQPatron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. p„ P atron—ll is Royal Highness the Prince of WA L E S,K.G 'esident-13 is Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. kism e ,„nuoierons and urgent appeals of the OA poor for ad- Zu14,.,"•,. compel the Committee to entreat the bounty of the t,,, ) , ‘ tr - e"4 4 sd'humane, as the medical officers are daily obliged " o-patients many distres4ng case . s which. with h'ut ade quatetunds they would gladly admit into the wards. ""cis`"' e ulises of the Hospital are capable of containing 500 Th, i k ° l 4l 7 o. 4 •togpitai is not endowed, but is wholly dependent on 1 , - 44 ,eitY contributions and legacies, which are received by 41 -e4 urer, Edward Mastertnan, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also estir s IP• •it • Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; C o.; and 4 4 ,1 1 1 e, a an na s o,,,ta and Co.' Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, 1),, - "` - '-ko• Glyn, and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay ere li a; r ,pentso n and Co. walianis, Deacon, and Co.; 14 8 ,.tern; a r, Ur ueY, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Berners-street ; " 4ospii,rlrdoniCoi.(;) till i f3 s arned and Co., Liverpool ; and at STANFORD S. SALIT.II N°. 22,612. NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF " WYLDER'S HAND." This Day, at all Libraries, in 3 vols., UNCLE SIL A S. A NOVEL. By J. SIIERIDAN LE FANU, Author of "Wylder's Hand," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. CAPTAIN GRANT'S NILE JOURNAL. To-morrow will be published, price 155., A WALK ACROSS AFRICA: OR, DOMESTIC SCENES FROM MY NILE JOURNAL. By JAMES AUGUSTUS GRANT, Captain li.hi. Bengal Army. One vol. Svo., with Map of tl►e Author's route. W. Blackwoo I and Sons, Edinburgh and London. Just piablished, price 25., THE BEAUTIFUL DEMON. A Tale of Love, Intrigue, Treachery, and Revenge. Also, uniform with the above, price 2s. each, INCOGNITA. I LADY DETECTIVE. SKITTLES. ANNIE. ANONIMA. KATE HAMILTON. AGNES WILLOUGHBY. I LEFT HEll HOME. WOMEN OF LON DON,2s. 6d. FANNY WHITE. LOVE FROLICS OF A YOUNG SCAM!'. London: George Vickers, Angel-court, Strand. NEW WORK ON AMERICAN SOCIETY. This Day, in 1 vol., price 10s. 6d., THE DOB BS FAMILY IN AMERICAS By our Own "SPECIAL" CORRESPONDENT. *** This remarkable Volume comprises a true and parti cular account of the Men in Office—Civil, Military. and Poli tical -the Evening Re-unions, the Manners, Customs, and Peculiarities of Society in general, but especially of Wash ington and New York, as seen from the Diplomatic pi:l:lit of view. John Maxwell and Co., Publishers, 122, Fleet-street. CHRISTMAS BOOKS. Price Is. each, never before printed. MISSES AND MATRIMONY. By Captain KNOLLYS. PHANTOM CRUISER. Edited by Lieut. WARNEFORD. SPELL-BOUND. By M. A. BIRD. **. All who desire a merry Christmas will buy these books, John Maxwell and Co., 122, Fleet-street. NEW NOVELS-AT ALL LIBRARIES, TH E BEE-HUNTERS. By GUSTAVE AIM ARD. 3 vols., price 31s. 6d. TILE MAN IN CHAINS. By C. J. COLLINS. HENRY DUNBAR. By Author of LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET. SINGED MOTHS. By Author of SACKVILLE CHASE. THE JOLLY BOAT. By Lieut. WARNEFORD, R.N. DOCTOR'S WIFE. By Author of LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET. John Maxwell and Co., Publishers, 122, Fleet-street. NEW NOVELS—AT ALL LIBRARIES, GASPARD TRENCHARD, By BRACEBRIDGE HEMYNG. 3 ♦ols., price 31s. 6cl. ASKERDALE PARK. By a CLERGYMAN. 2 vols. MAGGIE BELL. By WARWICK HOLME. 2 vols. MARTIN TOBIN. By LADY CAMPBELL. 3 vols. DANGEROUS CONNEXIONS. 3 vols. BROKEN TO HARNESS. By EDMUND YATES. 3 vols. John Maxwell and Co., Publishers, 122, Fleet-street. PLOPOSED RAILWAYS TN LONDON AND TEN MILES ROUND. Preparing for Publication, A. MAP of PROPOSED RAILWAYS and MISCELLANEOUS IMPROVEMENTS, deposited at the Private Bill Office, Nov. 30, 1864, for Session 1865 ; a'so, the Railways in Operation, Constructing, and Sanctioned. Price, in sheet, 2s. 6d. ; mounted, in case, s. 6d. London Edward Stanford, 6, Charing-cross, S.W.; and all booksellers. Demy Bvo., extra cloth. 6s. 6d.. LIFE : It 9 NATURE, VARIETIES, and PHENOMENA. By LEO H. GRINDON. Third Edition. " Mr. G rindon's book has reached, but will not stop at, the third edition. It is the work of a scholar, a Christian, and a man of real science."—Morning Herald. " To those who delight in the exercise of their intellectual powers, these very thoughtful and beautifully-written reflec tions will be a welcome boon, and the source long afterwards, we may rest assured, of many fruitful meditations and plea sant memories." —Sun. " The reader will find in it much thou. - zht and much read ing. There is plenty to think upon, plenty to study, plenty fo entertain."—lllustrated London News." London : F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row, E.C. Crown Bvo., cloth, 400 pages, price 55., - - IIIDDEN SPRINGS. By the Rev. J. PARKER, of Manchester. The sermons of Dr. Parker are espectaly noticeable for clearness of thought and language. All seems as if it were written with a pencil of light: . . . . N ture is every where in the ascendant, and hence its matchless force There is no speakin for speaking's sake, no display of any kind ; every word is an arrow directed to the mark."—Bri. fish Standard. London: F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster•row, E.C. 2SO pp., cloth, lettered, price 35., VEGETABLE COOKERY.—Pastry, Pickling, &c. This volume supplies a want long let. Cookery books exist in abundance, but they relate almost exclusively to the preparation of dishes from animal food. This work is devoted entirely to the proper cooking of vegetables, to preserving, pickling, the preparation of sauces, soups, beverages, &a, ite.. Rnd turms a cony tete trostbw riLwi s thesuideat. , 1 7 .vaptablcs, , fruits, &c. constitute the half of o u r daily food hero - fa an essay upon the best possible preparation of this half. London : F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row, E.C. QOllO ESTATE, HOUSE, AND GENERAL BUSINESS AGENCY OFFICES.—Persons requiring Freehold or Leasehold Property, or having Business and Houses to be disposed of, should apply to Mr. CHARLES MURRAY, Auctioneer and Valuer, 28, Gertard-street, Soho, W. Valuations for Probate Administration, Fire Claims, Rail way Compensations, &a. Rents Collected. TE ET H. IMPROVED MECHANICAL DENTlSTRY.—Professional abilities and great artistic skill have been most suocessfully combined in the production of ARTIFICIAL T EETI-t upon a new principle. The real value 0r the perfection of the art of Dentistry will be experi enced by all wishing to avail themselves of professional assistance by consulting M". AL BERT, 31, Great Russell street, Bloomsbury. whose experience has enabled him to effect such admirable, convenient contrivances by artificial means, and which are so perfectly efficient. DINNEFORD'S PURE FLUID MAGNESIA has been, during thirty years, emphatically sanctioned by the Medical Profession, and universally accepted by the Public, as the Best Remedy for Acidity of tho Stomach, Heartburn, Headache, Gout, and Indigestion, and as a Mild Aperient for delicate constitutions, more esp daily for Ladies and Children. Combined with the Accidulated Lemon Syrup it forms an agreeable Effervescing Draught, in which its Aperient quail, les are Much increased. During Hot Seasons, and, above all, in Hot Climates, the regular use of this sim ple and elegant remedy has been found highly beneficial. Manufactured (with the utmost attention to strength and purity) by DINNEFORD and CO., 172, New Bond-street, London ; and sold by all respectable Chemists throughout the Empire. BED•ROOM CANDLES. "RICE'S CANDLES, which will not drop crease when carried."—Thin, very hard candles sold in boxes le. and 38. each, are recommended as the best carriers. " EXTRA HARD 5.12 CHAMBER CANDLES," sold in boxes 2s. each. Thicker candles intended for those who will not burn thin. " SHERWOOD ECONOMIC BED LIGHTS," in packets of 36 candles for one shilling, intended for use where cheapness is a great object, will be found an improve ment on the ordinary candles, as they gutter less. Special candlesticks to fit thin candles, is. and 2s. 6d. each; reducing sockets, making them fit any candlesticks, 2d. each. TOILET SOAPS.' Sherwood Brown Windsor Soap, with a pleas a nt scent. B e l m ont Glycerine Soap, contains Price's Glycerine. Camphor and Glycerine Soap, fo tender skins in winter. GLYCERINE. SIIERWOODOLE Price's Glycerine" may be Cleans gloves and removes had from any Chemist, in grease and other stains. capsuled bottles, lettered Perfumed, in capsuled bot " Price's Patent," from fid. ties, 6d. and is. each. upwards. Impure Glycerine has been sold #sn the state ment that it is "equal to Prices." Retail through any Grocer. Wholesale by Price's Patent n Caudle Company (Limited), London y AMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM.—AN JU EFFECTUAL nEMEDY, without confining the bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is ad mitted to be the best medicine for immediately relieving , coughs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and incipient con sumption. It frequently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce incurable, admirably allays the tickling which provokes frequent coughing. In approaching consumption try effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief in a few minutes after taking it. Prepared oniy and sold by W. LAMBERT, Chemist. 8, King-William-street, Charing cross, London, and by all druggists, in bottles, 13 . 0., and three quantities in one, 2s. 9d. each. Be particular, and ask for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam, The name and address are engraved on the stamp. - I_l - AIR-CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn, London.—ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID curls Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. Sold at 3s. 6d.; sent free for 51 stamps. Ross's Toilet Magazine, is. 6d„ or 20 stamps. CI REY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London.— Xi(' ALEX. ROSS'S charges for Dyeing the hair perma nently- Ladles' Hair from 75. 6d. ; Gentlemen's from - ss. The Dye is sold at 35. 6d, or sent free for 54 stamps. It is moat easy of use. HAIR DESTROYER.-248, High Holborn, London.—ALEX. ROSS'S DEPIL A.TORY removes, without effect to the sk'n, superfluous hair from th e f ace, neck, and arms. 3s. 6d.; sent the same day as ordered by post for 51 stamps. SP A NISH FLY is the acting . ingredient i n ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHARIDES OIL, which speedily produces whiskers and thickens hair. 35. 6d.; sent free fors4 stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 218, High Holborn, London. Essay ~ 3rt Hair, Id. PINIPLE REMOVER.—AII diseases of the skin are improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S VEGE TABLE SKIN PILL. They remove redness, sallowness &c. 2s. 9d.; by post for 40 etimps•—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holbore, London. ALEX. ROSS'S FACE POWDER, le.; sent for H stamps ; Eye Colour, 3s. 6d., or 54 stamps. Skin tonic produces a transcendent complexion, 45., or 60 stamps. Bloom of Roses, 3s. 6d., or 64 stamps.—ALEX, ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London. ~~~ ~ , 3TE it cs, " • qr•p Rifles for their courtesy in lending the .istigei - • , 4 } 4 -4 sr .• • t, • • . psedtlire te o r e m h i e n e a r t s e f d o . r Colonel M‘Murdqr , 01, %1 ' kit 6t..' Sin 4 r4 • I ti The proposition was adopted with enth/idog _ft# • proceedingsPr ZAL 1144 IU/n4S -*`4211;:r17.4151:4m.- 11 : 4 : 40 1- co • 1) 4::ff : ' .16 , v 49: r ti91141111 6. :7 4 ... * • 'a • - y ir o gor .D I. . °l-14411111k- " - - "& PRICE STAMPED ~...5d attended their erection. The various arches and other portions of the exterior brickwork were then demolished by • a series of small explosions, and finally the three great entrances had successively to succumb to the engineers' " petard." Tho lest was the southern entrance, the victim of yesterday morning's electricity, and it now lies a mere heap of rubbish, to atte6t the skill of the Royal Engineers, the potency of little over a hundred pounds of gunpowder, and the admirable fitness for mining purposes of our friend the corporal's beau ful little frictional machine. CHESHIRE RIFLE ASSOCIATION.—The fourth annual meeting was held on Saturday at Chester, the Marquis of Westminster in the chair. The report showed that the ex— penditure this ) ear exceeded that of last year by £3O ; that the Cheshire subscription to the National Rifle Association was £B3 18s 6d, being £9 14s more than last year; that the Earl of Lichfield had promised to allow ten volunteers from Staffordshire to compete on the Roodee next season; and that the association was prosperous. Mr Tollemache, M.P., was appointed president for 1865; Earl Grosvenor, chair man of council; and Mr Laird, M.P., vice-chairman. Railway and other Companies. MANCIIESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLN- HIRE. The total expenses of fhiscoMpany's railways and the South Yorkshire, including rents, tolls, duty, c r ‘c,7., from July 1 to December 4, 1861, amounted to £171,262 RS against £17 , 1,319 for the corresponding period of 1863. 'rho proporion of the South receipts accruing to this company from July 1 to December 4 amounted to .C 16,518 as against £15,251 for the correspondin g period of 1863, and the expenses to £8,671 as against £7,518. I'NEUMAIIe DESPATCH. Yesterday the entire road traffic between Chancery-lane and the top of Gray's-inn-lams was stopped and diverted round by King's-road and Hatton-garden On the one hand, and Chancery , lane and Castic-street, Holborn, on the other, to enable the contractors and their workmen to excavater the roadway for the laying down of the pneumatic tubes, in continuation of the line from Eusten-square. The opera tions for this purpose are being carried cn day and night, with a view to the proposed completion of the line end its opening for traffic 'to the Post-office before the end of January. The requisite Parliamentary powers having been obtained last session, it is not intended to wait, as was at first thought desirable, for the consttuction. Of the Holborn-valley viaduct, by which means the pneu matic tube would have been carried continuously on a level, but to sink the tube under the Valley from Holborn to Snow-hill, it being perfectly practicable by the atmos pheric system to work any ordinary load up or down these inclines. From Snow-bill the line will pass under Newgate street into the Post-office yard, in St. Martin's-le-Grand, where the city station will be established, the site having been granted by the Post-office authorities. The works wilt be carried forward with as much rapidity as possible, so that the public traffic may be interfered with and suspended as little as possible. Telegraphic wires are to be laid down simultaneously with the tube, for its safe working from ter minus to terminus, and there is to be an intermediate station adjacent to the Inns of Court Hotel, now constructing, in Holborn. LONDON AND LIVERPOOL HOTEL. The first ordinary general meeting of this company was' held yesterday at the offices, King-street, Cheapside Col, Knox, M.P., in the chair. The Secretary read the report, which stated that on the directors taking possession of the premises in Liverpool la May last they commenced a complete reorganisation of the management of the hotel, which had largely increased its business, and which there was every reason to believe would render it one of the most extensive and profitable hotels in. the kingdom. The profits during the last six months had been nearly 30 per cent. on the paid-up capital, and there was a progressive increase in the gross receipts of more than. 20 per cent. The directors recommended that a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent per annum on the paid-up capital be declared. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said they were able to do what few hotel companies bad been able to do in the first six months of their existence — pay a satisfactory dividend. Some dissatisfaction and sur prise had been expressed by one or two shareholders at the refusal of the Stock-Exchange to quote the shares of their company. This was not because two-thirds of the shares were not taken up, but in consequence of ,the difference between the prospectus and the articles of association. This the directors offered to remedy, but they had as yet heard nothing more from the Stock Exchange on the subject. Mr STANILAND seconded the adoption of the report, which was agreed to. The dividend was then declared, and the business con- , ciuded with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. Alleged Case of Poisoning at Manchester. At the Manchester Police-court, on Saturday, Ann Cor rigan, a middle aged woman, was charged with the wilful murder, by poison, of Ann Conway. Sergeant Torr, of the deteciive police, said ho apprehended the prisoner in Jer sey-street, on suspicion of adnithistering poison to Ann Conway, ltoehdale-road, in November. He charged her with administering a liquid containing arsenic, and she said, Oh dear, oh dear, who says I have murdered her ? I only gave bet what she told me to." The prisoner asked witness, " Heve you se - n the recipe ?" (from which she alleged the liquid was prepared.) Witness replied no. The prisoner said, "It was in the house somewhere; I was with her the night before she died." Ellen Spark, Rochdale-road, said the deceased, who was 13 years old, lived with her, 51 10 was taken ill cn the Fa iday befog e she died, which was en Tuesday week. She bad been in delicate health since wit.. nose knew hr, but was never lily ill. She b ceme waned en the 25i h NOveniliefilteel af,a7-6L thMth ; she bed lived with witness three niont6etirad r- e'Tiiiincit married. The.pri-- goner, who lived in Jersey-street, came to see cieccasciiitt the Sunday before her death. The prisoner had been in the habit of going out with her, and appeared to be a friend of hers. She was very ill, but had had no surgeon; no medi cine had been administered to her; she had taken nothing but her food. The prisoner and witness went to her bed side and asked her how she was; she replied she was very unwell. Witness said she should have medical advice, and the prisoner remarked so also, but the deceased said "Oh, no, I have been as ill before many times." The prisoner asked witness if she could get a recommendation to the Royal Infirmary ? Witness replied that she had no doubt she could at Sheldon's, in Swan-street. The prisoner re marked " We will wait and see how she goes on to-morrow and Tuesday, and then you will perhaps get her one." Wit-. ness came down stairs and left the prisoner and the deceased. together. The deceased had vomited four times on Friday. and complained of her head and chest. She was of sober habits, and was quite sober when she went to bed orx Thursday night, On the Sunday the prisoner came dowe stairs after having been 10 minutes with the deceased. Witness asked if deceased had ever been so bad before, pri soner said "Oh, yea; it is her old complaint." Oa Tuesday morning witness went to the prisoner's house, and told her that Ann Conway was dead. Witness had found her head. in bed about half-past 8 o'clock. A week before the de ceased was taken ill, she had st witness's suggestion sent for a box of Whelpton's pills, and taken many of them. When witness told the prisoner of deceased's death, she seemed shocked and surprised, and asked witness how she had found the deceased. Witness told her that she had found her in bed. She then asked the prisoner "Have you Ann's club cards ?" The prisoner replied "They are at our house." Witness said " Then they aro not in her box," The prisoner told witness that she had been up to the deceased's brother and told him of deceased's death, upon which he said, " Oh dear, what shall I do 1" and pri soner replied to him, " Don't put yourself out of the way, as there is sufficient money in the club to bury her." Wit* ness said, " The brother will want to draw the club money, or if there is any bother the club will bury her." The pri soner remarked that the club would have nothing at all to do with it—she:had entered the deceased's name, and she should draw the money ; it had been paid at her house. An inquest was held on the day of the death. A week after the - eleceased came to live with witness the prisoner brought a largo glass bottle with a small neck, and said it contained medicine for the deceased. Witness had seen the deceased tako medicine out of that, bottle several times. After that bottle had been emptied by the deceased it was washed and used by witness's husband as an oil bottle. The prisoner subsequently asked for it,' and he: gave her two catsup bottles instead. A day or two afterwards she brought the' two bottles full of something, and put them on the table for the deceased, telling her she brought her some medicine. Ann Conway took the contents of these two bottles in the course of a month. The prisoner had the bottles again, filled them, and brought them a second time. Deceased said," Oh, bottles n ein in e, t e h x e ce s p a t m th e a s t ta w t i e tn a e s s w s h h e a rr l y a r d have ethbermou.ght Deceased naymeditcoionki e . t T e h co e n p t i e i n so t n s e o r f s t s h i o d se " except what remained in them when witness handed therm t t o h e t h d e ee p e o a l s i e c d e . wiped off several bits of somethin g white on the neck o f one o f them. They w ere of a hard s u bsta n c e , an d each was about the si ze of a p in's head. The p risoner took away lest T thoeoyk woret emtehdei the body of the deceased the night after the inquest. Wit. nese had not noticed what effect followed deceased taking the medicine, and had never seen her take more than one dose a day. Deceased generally complained of her head and chest. When witness found her dead she was not at all distorted. On the day before her death she said she/ felt better—free from pain, but weak. 'Witness never saw any prescription or recipe. The bottles were handed by the police to Dr Fletcher, Lever-street, on Thursday evening. lie said they were champagne bottles, and contained e small quantity of fluid, hes than a teaspoonful. He hal made a preliminary analysis, and had found a precipitate which indicated arsenic. The reaction in testing in one bottle was more intense than in the other. Tho difference ire the quantity of arsenic tended to show that it was not likely that, the mixture had been made from a prescript ten. 'rho tests he had applied were pure, but there Nees plenty of liquid left for a thorough analysis. The presiding magis trate asked if thee was any medicine used at, all corre sponding with the liquid in the bottles. Dr Pletcher said there was a preparation of arsenic used medicinally, but that would not indicate a reaction to the extent he had found in the liquid in the bottles. The prisoner was Amended until Saturday, •=••••••• BORDER CIVILISATION.—The Walkerton (Canada. West) Herald mentions that two bears were lately noticed taking a stroll through that place in the evening. As no. thing was carried off, it is regarded as a reconnoitring expe• dition, to be turned to account hereafter, THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, 1864. 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The largest Establishment in England for the Manufacture of Wax Candles for the use of the Altar. tue prophet's mantle in relation to the future issues of war, I think:l can venture to promise that against these lines uo force of Federals is soon likely to prevail. Daring the fine autumnal days of October both sides have lately busied themselves in strength. ening their earthworks, until it would be a difficult task for either party to surmount his opponent's lines, even though undefended by men. On the south side of the River James and front of Peters. burg the Confederate lines are still stronger, ivas. much as the ditch in front of them is deeper and the stockades (consisting of pointed stakes stuck in the ground and sloping outwards at an angle of 45 &grecs) are repeated, running iu double, treble, and sometimes in quadruple lines. The language of an experienced Confederate artillery officer in reference to General Pickett's lines in front of Ber muda Hundred was, that they are so strong they cou'd be held by a parcel of old apple women. Upon the north side of the river there has existed lately by tacit agreement a kind of truce between the pickets, so that there is no difficulty in riding without molestation or danger along the whole length of the lines ; but upon the south side the firing between the pickets is every day incessant and continuous, and it is impossible to show an inch of head above the works with out the risk of a bullet through the brain. The firing is kept up on both sides with a view to pre. vent the possibility of desertion. The're is in both armies such weariness of the war that desertions have been numerous during the last three months; but latterly the inflaraFederals has far exceeded the outflow of Confederate desertions. It is probable that the invitation held out to Yankee deserters by the Confederate authorities in their general order, No. 65, has tended to deplete the Northern ranks, inasmuch as nine out of ten Federal desertereooring a copy of this order in their hands when they enter the Confederate lines, and claim the privileges and promises which it offers, and which I need hardly say are scrupulously extended to them. As this general order may be not without interest to some of your readers, I append a copy of it : " General Order, No. 65. Adjutant and Inspector. General's Office, Richmond, Virginia, Aug. 15, 1864. It having been represented to the War Department that there are numbers of foreigners entrapped by artifice and fraud into the military and naval service of the United States wh3 would gladly withdraw from further participa. tion in the inhuman warfare waged against a people who have never given them a pretext for hostility, and that there are many inhabitants of the United States now retained in that service against their will who aro averse to aiding in the unjust war now being prosecuted against the Confe derate States ; and it being also known that these men are prevented from abandoning such compulsory service by the difficulty they experience in escaping therefrom, it is ordered that all such persons coming within the lines of the Confederate armies shall be received, pro tected, and supplied with means of subsistence until such of them as desire it can bo forwarded to the most convenient points on the border, when all facilities will be afforded them to return to their homes, (By Order) S. COOPER, Adjutant and Inspector General. To this order is subjoined a translation ipto French, and another into German, and it is circulated in the Federal army as widely as possible, not to mention that it is daily printed in the Richmond journals, of which many copies find their way into the Fede• ral ranks. But there is reason to think that if its circulation was still wider among the Yankee soldiers the fruit that it would bear would be still more abundant. I am happy to report that Gen. Longstreet is at present quite free from the nervous sensibility in his right arm from which for some time ho suffered. The nerves of motion are still entirely paralysed, and the arm is almost uskqess, but he is able slightly to wove the fingers, and it is the opinion of tinny surgeons that he will regain plenary use of it from 18 months to two years, when the nervous tissue shall have had time to repair itself. His general health and spirits are excellent, and his confidence in the ability of his soldiers to hold the Confedc. rate lines, and to keep the enemy out of Richmond for an unlimited period is unabated. It is a strong testimony to Gen. Longstreet's value as a soldier Mat each 14 the 14:ee g:GlTrectiptulnit of 11".!Ces:i3Itt Lee, Beauregard, anti-. Johnston esteems him equally, and desires his presence by their side. Upon the 18thainst. Beauregard telegraphed from Jacksonsville, in Alabama, soliciting Longstreet's company in the West, but it was decided that he could not be spared from his old army corps before Richmond. in Tiamoszo, and will have Plymouth to-day or to-morrow for Gibraltar and Malta. The iron paddlewheel steam sloop Trident, 3, Commander Charles T. Balfour, from the Mediter. ranean, is hourly expected at Plymouth. The following appointments have been made in the Royal Naval reserve :—To be Sub.-Lieut., Wiliam Joseph Whereat; to be Honorary Lieut., Charles Gribble. Demolition of the Great Exhibition Building Alt homgh yesterday morning exhibited emphati cally that sort of atmospheric complexion which so fully justifies Lord Brougham in leaving " merry England "in November and spending his winter on the shores of the Mediterranean, a very large crowd indeed assembled in South Kensington to witness the scientific demolition of the last of the great sec tions of the exhibition building. There were a groat many carriages and thousands of people on foot, both in the Vromwell and Exhibition roads, whilst the windows of all the aristocratic residences in the neighbourhood were filled with spectators evidently firmly relying on the skill of the Sappers and Miners to carry the critical work of explosion to a perfectly safe conclusion. It is now a little over two years since the closing ceremony of the Exhibition took place, and when the last audience might be seen streaming out of the various entrances which are now only so many heaps of ruins. The treasures of art, of science, and of industry have since then been scattered to the - four winds of - heaven ; in the - interval there have been almost as much skill, labour, and per. severance concentrated on the work of demolition akhad previously been devoted to that of erection ; and now, on the spot where a vast palace of indus try so lately reared its head in triumph—where hundreds of thousands of people had been a whole season daily congregated to be instructed and amused—where great organs had pealed and per fumed fountains hod sparkled—where representa. tives of all the peoples of the world might have been seen hustling each other in friendly eagerness to participate in the spectacle—there is nothing now left but a heap of the most melancholy of ruins, namely, those of a new building. The plough has passed over Jerusalem —or, to use a more trite but still more appos!re simile, " the cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces," have all vanished, and almost literally left " not a rack behind." The process of demolition has been throughout entrusted to the skilled and steady hands of the Royal Engineers, and the agent used has been that terrible gunpowder which is so difficult to work with safety. The Sappers, however, have found out the secret, for the explosion which took place yesterday morning was about the thirtieth which had been found necessary for the destruction of so vast an edifice, and like all its predecessors it was perfectly successful, and so skilfully managed that the frail hoarding which surrounds the ruins was not shaken in the slightest degree, nor did a single brick or fragment of a brick fly over into the adjoining street. Nay, so admirably calculated had been the strength and direction of the ex. plosion that it would have been quite possible for a man to have stood at the southern entrance whilst the charge was being fired, and to have come away completely unharmed when the whole building had become a mass of ruins. The mining party consisted of a sergeant and thirteen men, under the command of Lieute nant Knocker, R.E., and a corporal who had charge of the electrical apparatus. The machine which has been used in all these explosions is a recent invention of some German electrician, and is calculated to play an important part in future warlike operations. Had we had it in the Crimean war hundreds of valuable lives might have been saved, nod General Todleben's famous earthworks might have turned out not quite so impregnable. It is a small case, not larger than an American clock, and although able, as was seen yesterday, to blow up one of the largest edifices in London, might be conveniently carried about in a inah'e hand. The name by which it is known in Om Fes vice—namely, 1, 4 The Frictional Machine"—suggoiis the novel mode in whiCh the electric shock is generated. When the top is taken off two discs are seen rotating on an axle, which communicates with a handle outside the box, and these are composed of ebonite, a composite material, which is believed to be the best non-conductor which has yet been invented. When these discs are made:to rotate by the turning of the handle outside, friction is set up with a pad placed beneath them in the box, which pad is composed of an amalgam of zinc and mer cury, and the result of the friction is the generation of the electric spark. Between the disos a steel point stands up, and as the disc turns the point acts as a conductor, and carries the fluid along to the wire outside, not, however, until a signal has been given, and by the pulling of a trigger all interrup tion to the current is removed. This beautiful machine was most skilfully handled by the corporal in charge, end did its work with all the precision of clockwork and all the harmlessness of the most simple mechanical operation. The building which was destroyed yesterday morning will be well remembered by the public as the southern entrance facing the Crom well-road. The fagade was large and massive, and the great object was to prevent its falling out• wards into the road. By a very skilful piece of engineering, Lieutenant Knocker fulfilled this in tention with entire success, and caused the four walls to " cave in" with the perfect safety to all surrounding space and objects to which we have be fore alluded. The process was something in this fashion. The front wall or fagade " was counter sunk" at a couple of feet from the ground, that is to say, a row of holes were bored at an ogle of 45 deg., and a very low charge of powder placed in each. These were first ignited, and the result was so to weaken the wall, as that the latter, aTahough still standing, could be easily brought down by a very slight additional force. The plan was in fact ex actly similar to that by which the American axe man brings down the monarchs of the forest, viz., cutting two-thirds through the trunk, and then dragging down the tree in the direction re quired. In this case the facade having been thus weakened, full charges were applied all round the remaining three sides of the building, and these when tumbling down dragged the facade inwards and along with them, thus preventing the casting of a single brick or fragment of a brick into the Cromwell-road. The whole operation of destruc. tion which, if carried out Blackfriars.bridge fashion, by human labour with pickaxe and crowbar, would have occupied at least three months, was in this case brought to a successful termination in about as many minutes. The first explosion, namely, that which "countersank" the facade, was scarcely noticeable, and the second, which brought down the whole building in crumbling masses of ruins, was little louder than a pistol.shot. A cloud of dust rose into the air, a rumbling noise was heard, and the next minute there was nothing standing over the whole site of the great Exhibition building except Mr. Morrish's once famous refreshment rooms, and which we understand have been handed over to the authorities of the Horticultural Gar. dens. The ruins took the shape of large masses of brickwork, the tenacity of which testified creditably to the good faith in which the building contract had been fulfilled—heaps of single bricks from por tions of the wall which have been closest to the powder had received the strongest shock; and still smoking masses of mortar and other rubbish, where but a few moments before had stood a stately edi• flee, under whose porch hundreds of th ousa nds of persons had passed in and out during the Exhibi• tion season. There is nothing now left to be done with the great triumph of Captain Fowke's archi• tectural genius but to cart it away. The re moval of the great domes was a tedious and difficult task, bat we understand was effected with much less sacrifice of human life than had THE CONFEDERATE STATES, (From the Special Correspondent of the Times) RICHMOND, Oct. 27. Your readers will probably have been so surfeited with the fantaronades of the Northern journals and with the t3elf-laudations of Gen, Sheridan on his success in the Valley on the 19th inst., that they will not thank me for recurring to that theme. But it seems to me desirable that they should learn that these extravagant jubilees, assisted by the nonsense, to which Mr Stanton has not scrupled to put his hand, about the presence in the Valley of General Longetreet and 12,000 additional troops, are only electioneering dodges in Mr Lincoln's interest. Upon the very day upon which Eli-ly converted a great success into a greater disaster, General Long street,,greeted by the eettutsiastie weleotr.: of him old soldieratrwis resuming couttmand--.of the First Army Corps,.under General Lee, in the following words : Head quarters, lat Army Corps, Oct. 19, 1864. The undersigned, with deep and grateful emotions, re sumes command of his Army Corps. Although separated from it since the first action of the past eventful campaign, the history of your share in that campaign is not unknown to him. He has marked with pride and pleasure the success which has attended your heroic efforts under the accom plished commander who has so worthily led you. Soldiers, let us not go backward 1 Let the Ist Corps be always true to itself 1 We have in the past a brilliant and unsurpassed record. Let our future eolipse it in our eagerness for glory, our love of country, and our determination to beat the enemy. J. LONOSTREET, Lieutenant-General. The Confederate army in the Valley upon the 19th inst. was the same force which was sent there in June, which menaced Washington early in Jely, and was commanded from the commencement by the same leader, General Early. The only aug mentation which it had received was the division of General Kershaw, which left the neighbourhood of Richmond early in August. The Northern public has again and again been assured that " the rebel army in the Valley has ceased to exist." Yet upon the 19th inst. this same shadowy army assumed the initiative, utterly routed two Federal corps, which in their flight annihilated a third corps of their as sociates, and at 1 in the afternoon of that day the Confederates had captured 18 pieces of cannon, and inflicted upon their enemy a loss of 5,000 men in killed, wounded, and prisoners. Unfortunately, at this stage the want of discipline in General Early's force proved its ruin. They took to plundering their enemy's camps, and, making no preparation against the possibility of another attack from an army which they conceived to be utterly routed, they laid themselves open, as easy victims, to the reprisals which Gen. Sheridan, who had come late upon the field, vigorously initiated. The artillery, caissons, and ambulances, all huddled together in inextricable confusion, fell an easy prey to some 25 Federal horsemen who were adventurous enough to dash in among them and to shoot down the horses attached to the guns. Mr Lincoln is mi. questionably greatly indebted to General Sheridan, who did more, by arresting what would otherwise have been to the Federals one of the most disgrace. ful defeats of the war, to insure his reelection, than all the orators who have taken the stump in his favour from Maine to California. Bat, although the Federal General regained his lost 18 pieces, and took from General Early 23 Confederate pieces in addition, it is indisputable that the Federal loss in men far outweighs that of the Confederates. The Valley is further than ever from being in the Federal grasp; and although General Sheridan has taken pride in applying the torch to private property with a recklessness of cruelty which is unsurpassed even in the annals of this ruthless war, it is not in his power sensibly to diminish the abundant wealth of this favoured region after one of the most lavish harvests which the Valley has ever Been. It is more than ever necessary for Mr Lincoln to keep a large army, and more especially a considerable force of cavalry, in the Valley to protect Washington, and I see little prospect of Grant being able to withdraw from Sheridan that fine body of cavalry which was so active in the neighbourhood of Richmond during the months of May, June, and July, and without which Grant's operations against Richmond and Petersburg promise to yield but little fruit. I have just returned from a long ride along the Confederate lines upon the north side of the River James, which commences at Chaffin's Bluff, and run north words for many miles till they strike the Charles City.road,immediately to the north of which lies the White Oak swamp, a spongy morass, which occupies all the space between the Charles City-road and the Chickahonainy River. With a full experi ence of the hazards which await those who assume Naval and Military Intelligence. The East India and London Shipping Company's screw steamship Calcutta, Capt. J. IL Wright, the arrival of which in the Channel, with troops on board from Madras, was announced in The Sun of yesterday, anchored at Spithead yesterday morn ing, and at five p.m. steamed into Portsmouth Harbour and was berthed alongside the dock,where she will land the troops this morning under the e superintendence of the military authorities. The invalids, consisting of 89 men, 3 women, and four c hildren, will be forwarded by Government steamer to the Royal Victoria Military Hospital, at Netley. The time expired troops, consisting of 40 men, 10 wome n, and 14 child ren , w ill b e sen t o n to the d e pots of their respective regiments. Four soldiers died during the passage home from Madras. The Achilles, iron f r i ga t e , C a pt. E. W. Van. sittart, is ordered to be tried in the usual manner ov er the measured mile in Stokes Bay, near P or tsmouth. This will give a reliable result of the ship's actual rate of speed at her seagoing draught of water, the only condition at which a ship's trial can be made to render it of any value. Yesterday Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, G.C.8., Port Naval Commander-in-chief at Portsmouth, embarked on board the Sprightly steamer, him to Spithead, where he visited and officially inspected the Achilles. The ship, with her four square-rigged masts has an ex tremely ugly and crowded appearance aloft, as seen from a distance. Admiral which and d onyeye The Hector, iron frigate, Capt. Preedy, C. 8., has sent up her topmasts alongside Portsmouth Dock• yard in her course of refit and alteration in her rig from her double composite lower yards and stumpy topgallantmasts to ordinary full•sized single top. sails, topgallantsails, and royals on her fore and main masts. Her mizenmast will carry fore and aft sails only. The Hector is to be, to a certain extent, apparently an experimental ship, and among other things to be tried is a new arrange• ment for netting the ship's anchors, the proposi. tion, it is said, of a naval officer. Our dockyard officials should really be competent to carry out efficiently the disposition of a ship's anchor gear without calling in extraneous aid for the perform ance of duties which they, as dockyard officers, are specially appointed and paid to perform. Some correspondence is passing between White. hall and Portsmouth Dockyard relative to the Royal Alfred frigate, now receiving her coating of armour plates at No, 3 dock of that yard. It appears that a proposition has been made to the Admiralty to alter the whole intended system of plating the ship, and, instead of giving her a complete coating of 41in. plates (which, by the way, are already partly un the vessel), to give her a 12-in. iron belt at the water line, with a square iron box of great thick ness amidships, capped by two turrets. Without offering any opinion as to the merits of such a plan, we presume the cost already incurred by the Royal Alfred since she was first laid down as a screw two-decker and reconstructed as an ar mour-plated frigate, together with the fact that the ship is of wood, will cause the Admiralty to reject all idea of any second reconstruction or conversion in her ease. The correspondence, how ever, is still going on, and a sketch of the proposed second reconstruction of the ship has been received at Whitehall from Portsmouth yard. The screw steam storeship Fox, 2, Commander Thomas C. Pullen, is now alongside the coal depot ,19 &/ c 9 i - The Central Anti-Malt Tax Association. A meeting of the council of this association was held at the Bridge House Hotel last week, for the purpose of con sidering the best means of renewing with all possible acti vity the agitation for the removal of this most obnoxious tax in the ensuing Parliamentary session. Amongst those present were Messrs Punnett (West Kent), Eley (East Kent), llodsoll (West Kent), T. Arkely (Gloucester), Hobbs Collett (Berks), Simpson (Yorkshire), Marshall (Lincolnshire), Williams (Berks), W. Beadell and F. Beadell (Suffolk), E. Gardner and J. S. Gardner (Suffolk), Plumber (Wilts), Richardson (Lincolnshire), Burdett (Derbyshire), Chapman (Midland Counties Asso ciation), Rowley (Yorkshire), Osborne (Leicestershire dis trict of the Midland Counties Association), Rev. J, Linton (Huntingdonshire), Bacon (Sussex), Brandram (Ilerts), Frampton (Berks), Hanley (Lincolnshire), Mr Kintrea, (the Parliamentary agent). After the routine business of reading the minutes and passing the accounts for the last half year, which showed only a small balance to the credit of the association, a long •discusalon enirued - as to the best practicabre znetlied of opening the campaign for the session of 1865. The dele gates present from the various counties reported the strong desire and determination of their constituents to prosecute the object of the Central Association in the most energetic manner, and it was resolved-1. To hold a public meet ing of the farmers of England, to be hell in the Free mason's Tavern in London, on a day immediately preceding the re-assembling of Parliament. 2. To urge upon all who have at heart the repeal of the malt duty the para mount necessity of having that meeting numerously and influentially attended, so as to give weight and authority to the movement both with Parliament and the country, as well as with the Government. 3. To publish another number of " Anti-Malt Tax Circulars" early in January, for distribution amongst the various local associations Mr Osborne undertaking to purchase 1,000 copies for the Midland Counties Association, and other delegates present agreeing to take the same number as before. 4. To organise a large deputation to the Chan cellor of the Exchequer immediately alter the meeting of parliament. 5. To make the necessary arrangements for bringing the question before Parliament prior to the budget, so as to avoid any possible antagonism with rival claimants for reduction of taxation. 6. To promote and encourage the renewal of district public meetings in the various counties, and to forward petitions to Parliament for signa ture. The thanks of the meeting were given to the constituen cies of Berkshire, "West Suffolk, and North Warwickshire, for their conduct towards their members on this question, which it is hoped and expected will be imitated in other counties. Mr Kintrea was again returned as a Parliamentary agent for the next session. The meeting was of a very enthusiastic and resolute character, We understand that since this meeting several gentlemen have subscribed £lOO each towards raising a sufficient fund for next year's campaign. THE VOLUNTEERS. NINETEENTH MIDDLESEX RIFLES. Tho ceremony of presenting prizes to the successful com petitors in this corps took place last night in Westminster Hall, in the presence of a large number of spectators. Lieut. Col. Hughes, the commandant of the corps, pre sided, and there was also present Col. 111‘Murdo. Major Oxley officiated, and Mt s Oxley delivered the prizes, which were very numerous and valuatdo, to the different recipients. Lieut.-Col. 11 u lIES, in opening the proceedings, referred to the loss the corps had sustained on the retirement of Lieut. Cul. Bathurst, Capt. Martineau, and Capt. Roebuck. With reference to the 'net mentioned officer (whose name was received with rounds of enthusiasm), he went on to say in the 19th society distinctions lied never weighed iu the choice of officers in comparison with real merit. '1 hey had had many officers from a class from which officers were not generally taken. It had been thought a mistake and would not answer, but he could ray that it Led answered, and admirably too, and that no officer had over more thoroughly and conscientiously done his work than Capt. Roebuck. Xhree.ikutenants and an ensigro.6ndieg thseierel eee+ thee, to their duties as tfil.ser, l returrfOlitylee rooks, and had earned - the 30 - 6 ror their corps—afilx'ainple which he (Col. Hughes) would follow himself if he found he could not give the time which the command of the regiment in volved. He then referred to the loss of the range of the corps. A more serious loss could hardly befall:a regiment, and it was becoming a serious question for all metropolitan corps. They lost their range in June, in the very middle of the shooting season. If their range was stopped there was no safety for any of the ranges round London ; for not only had they never had an accident to a man on the range, but they had never had an accident of any kind. In spite of that, from the mere exercise of the will of ono landowner in the neighbourhood, their range had been shut up. It was a great misfortune to them, and it should be a warning to the whole force. If the country wanted the volunteers to learn to shoot, it should bear a little with the noise of firing ball cartridge. So many ranges were being stopped round Lon don that some general measure should be adopted. Either the Government would have to provide ranges, or some equally efficient measure would have to be passed. The statistics of the shooting of the corps showed that in 1862 130 members only had commenced class shooting. In 1863 that number had increased to 268 ; and in 1861 to 283. The number that completed class firing were in 1862 87 ; in 1863, 171; and in 1864, 205. The 205 who had completed class shooting were out of the total of 489 officers and volun. teers. The total enrolled strength this year was 649, against 643 in 1863; but as 37 more men had earned the 30s this year, he looked upon that as a satisfactory set-off. The prizes were then delivered by Mrs Oxley. At the conclusion of the presentation, Colonel lei'Muhreo, who was loudly applauded, said he had been invited to attend that meeting, and it was with great pleasure he did so. He would address a few words to the members of the 19th to congratulate them upon the pro ceedings of the evening. To see the 19th once more under arms, to hear of its general prosperity, to witness the disc tribution of the prizes, and to hear how they had won, was to him a great pleasure. He experienced also great satis faction in seeing round him the supporters of the corps. It was an important thing that each corps should have its sup , porters among the public. (Cheers.) It was supported on the one hand by the Government end on the other by the people, but the encouragement given by the Government was surpassed by that given by the people. The force as a citizen army would always be considered es a supplement to the regular army. At first it no doubt created some jea lousy on the. part of the army, it being overlooked that the volunteers were formed for and would be confined to there• polling of an enemy from our shores. But whatever jealousy had existed, he was happy to say it had all been long dissi pated, and the army were ready and willing to give the volunteers all the assistance they could. (Cheers.) Ho then went on to say there was scarcely a corps that had not its chaplain, and if that had not been so he believed the move ment would not have prospered as it had done with a large section of the people. At all times armies had sought to attach to them their chaplains, whose prescriptions gave to the soldiers physical foree..Thero had scarcely been a battle fought, but that the presence of the chaplain had been found beneficial and encouraging to the man who knew that in a short time he would be launched into eternity. lie then congratulated the corps upon the manner in which they had conducted their shooting, notwithstanding the difficulties th e y had encountered when their range was closed in June last. Both he and Lord De Grey were aware of the fact, and they did all they could to remedy it, but were unsuccessful. He quite agreed with what Colonel Hughes has said, that nobody had been hurt, and regretted exceedingly that there was no act of Parliament to prevent volunteers being at the mercy of a parcel of fools who, from freak of temper, closed their ranges. (Cheers and laughter.) Colonel Hughes had referred to the first inspection he (Colonel M'Murdo) had made of the 19th Middlesex. It was remarkable, because it was the first inspection he ever made of any corps. But that inspection showed what he was to expect from the volunteers, and he was not wrong, because in the December of that year there were 18,000 men enrolled, akin 18 months afterwards there were 10 0 , 000 enrolled. ers.) With reference to what had peen termed by the press undue praise to volunteers, ho confessed ho lied sought to avoid that. It was necessary when officers inspected corps that s 0 rateht feogrcoef waspraise d o e r d e i n n t c o o u m r a a y e e artst, they should say This they did, and as and inspections t were frequently taking place, it ape eared, n o doub, that praise was continuously bestowed u p o n the men ; althou g h when it was considered that men turne d out to do duty at ni g ht till the y became perfect in p their drill they deserved praise. (Cheers.) He then re marked upon the importance of corps keeping up their drill and shooting, and fearlessly asserted that the 19th had, in this particular, ably acquitted themselves— (cheers) ; and concluded by wishing the corps continued prosperity. Lieut. Col. HUGHES said he had nearly forgotten to men tion that the 19th were much indebted to the 4th Surrey ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION. :' R. iina. Mrs. gerimAN. REED. with Mr. h-,,, J(1111 , r PAIIIM - Will appear in TUE RIVAL COM t — „• 31 -MS (for a limited, number oi representations). To be 17',.'_olved by THE BARD and HIS BIRTHDAY. (Mr. and ii,',"• GERMAN REED). Shakespearian Visions of 4. Rosa- Witch, Touchstone, and Ariel, illustrated by Mrs. Ger ":A-SlD"an Re E, by Mr. JOed. Cone tidingHN with PARR MRS. ROSELELF AT THE .Y . . . - tvery Evening (except Saturday) at 8. A Morning Repre sentation every Saturday, at 3 o'clock. 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